kuxiir

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cuchillo, from Latin cultellus. C.f. Northern Tepehuan kuxíírui.

Noun

kuxiir (plural kukxir)

1. knife

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 118